Last year I purchased a small fig tree in a 2-gallon container near the end of the growing season. Since fig trees are not hardy in my zone 5 garden, I kept the fig over the winter in my unheated garage. In early spring, I repotted the fig into a larger and more decorative container [...]

Strawberry foliage with leafspot disease . . . In mid-summer, the strawberry patch can look pretty bad. Leaf spot diseases take hold, especially in a year with alternating flooded and dry periods – like this year. In the past, when my strawberry plant foliage looked really bad, I just lopped it off and new leaves [...]

Strawberry shortcake – the dessert I dream about nine months of the year, and consume as often as possible the other three! This is a photo of the shortcake I enjoyed last night, using berries from our new strawberry patch. We started the rather large strawberry garden last summer. It is an oval shape, about [...]

I’m delighted that we’ve had a long, soaking rain the past few days – we really needed it! Photo of Bristol Black Raspberries from Stark Bros. Nursery As luck would have it, some bare-root ‘Bristol’ black raspberry bushes that I ordered (from Stark Bro’s Nursery, www.starkbros.com) arrived and needed to be planted right away. I [...]